Two essays on the macroeconomic analysis of government policies and entrepreneurship

• Autores: Zoe Kuehn
• Directores de la Tesis: Nezih Guner (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ( España ) en 2010
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Juan José Dolado (presid.), Matthias Kredler (secret.), Luis A. Puch (voc.), Andrés Erosa Etchebehere (voc.), Josep Pijoan-Mas (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Ciencias económicas
    • Economía general
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• Resumen

  • In this thesis, I study the macroeconomic link between government policies and entrepreneurship. In the first chapter, I look at the informal economy in high-income countries and show that taxes and the quality of governance can account for a large fraction of cross country differences in informality. In the second chapter, I ask why the East German economy, in contrast to other transition economies, suffers from a lack of entrepreneurial activity and low growth rates. In particular, I study how the integration of East Germany into an established economy - West Germany - adversely affected the allocation of entrepreneurial talent in East Germany